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State of the Union
Robin Blackburn, NLR 61, January-February 2010, pp. 153-174
Subjects: History and Historiography, United States.
The fate of post-bellum attempts to extend egalitarian impulses across race lines and factory floors, amid the sharpening class struggles of the Gilded Age.
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Value Theory and the Chinese Worker
Robin Blackburn, NLR 56, March-April 2009, pp. 128-135
Subjects: Economic Theory, World Economy and Globalization, Economic Policy.
In answer, Blackburn explores the paradoxes of fictitious capital, underwritten by super-exploitation of China’s producers. A public-utility credit system, democratic forms of nationalization and mechanisms to socialize investment as steps towards financial dual power.
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The Philosopher and his Blacks
Robin Blackburn, NLR 52, July-August 2008, pp. 127-137
Subjects: France, History and Historiography, Political Theory and Strategy.
Robin Blackburn on Louis Sala-Molins, Dark Side of the Light. Polemical assault on the French Enlightenment’s record on slavery—Condorcet’s contradictions, Diderot’s compromises, Montesquieu’s motivations.
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The Subprime Crisis
Robin Blackburn, NLR 50, March-April 2008, pp. 63-106
Subjects: United States, World Economy and Globalization.
As reverberations from the stricken mortgage market reach the real economy, Robin Blackburn reveals the origins of the crunch in the shadowy realms of financialization. Precedents from the bubbles and crash of the 1920s, warnings from pioneers and venture capitalists, and proposals for how to turn the crisis to socially redistributive effect.
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Plan for a Global Pension
Robin Blackburn, NLR 47, September-October 2007, pp. 71-92
Subjects: Economic Policy.
On current projections, a fifth of the world’s population will be over 60 by 2050. With old-age poverty set to increase across the planet, Robin Blackburn presents a plan for funding a universal pension of a dollar a day.
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